In the meanwhile, can Clough Jr go some way to emulating his famous fathers achievements at Derby?
Football films tend to be terrible. The action on pitch seems to be more difficult to replicate than in other sports and ends up looking unrealistic. The plots seem to come straight from the pages of Roy of the Rovers: you know the hero will always bag a last minute goal and get the girl of his dreams, etc. The nadir of the genre may well be the Sean Bean vehicle When Saturday Comes, a football film that leaves no cliché unturned. Then there’s Best, which is shown on Sky Movies at least once a week, due to the fact that the film was produced by the now defunct, Sky Pictures. Some of the casting is genius. Jerome of Robson & Jerome fame as Bobby Charlton and Roger Daltrey as Rodney Marsh, are particular highlights. Unfortunately they got the casting of the eponymous George Best all wrong. John Lynch is way too old and not nearly handsome enough to pull off the role. He looks more like Pete Townsend, which becomes very surreal when he shares screen-time with Daltrey as Rodney Marsh. You
